Last office meeting with BigBoss today, and there were no announcements of who's taking over. By the end of the day tomorrow! Uh-huh. I did ask SuperBigBoss if we were going to have the same hiring issues as last time (i.e. "we put out an ad, we didn't like anyone who applied, then we had to get a recruiter") and he said they were putting out an ad and using a recruiter at the same time, so that's good.

The not-great-Bob news is that since the state is just scrapping ALL precautions of anything circa June 13, and the giant org can't possibly have more restrictions than the state....this is what a coworker dubbed "Wild West free-for-all" with no distancing or nothing. "If the state just throws open the doors and says good luck, I don't think that's good, I don't think that's safe." She said she doesn't feel safe even being around all vaccinated people in the office. BigBoss said they recognize that "people feel as you do" and that some won't get vaccinated. "If the state just returns to the Wild Wild West sort of atmosphere, giant org has no legal recourse to deal with that?" BigBoss was all "now you want me to be a lawyer." Meanwhile, another guy pointed out that the work health portal considers you "not in compliance" if you haven't gotten vaccinated, even though technically they aren't requiring anyone to get it....YET, I note.

My buddy Christine is on some sort of committee about revisioning work, and while she's also nervous about what's going to go on in the office, she said committeewise that they don't want to go back to "business as usual" because it saves them money on rental fees and less travel footprint, and the giant org is losing staff to other giant orgs that will allow permanent work from home, so they better not just make us all come back "just because." I hope she's right.

In the afternoon, we got tapped to have to work on yet another giant technological fail project (i.e. somehow the computer system stopped processing almost everything that was coming in and now we have to do a bunch of tedious manual shit to fix it). To quote my boss and grandboss, "Why is everything so hard at Giant Org?" "We would be bored otherwise."

Variants are going up in my county. Whee. Karaoke is on hold again, I guess, as Karaoke Jim said he'd keep us posted on dates. Much to my shock, Valentin and Theater Jim actually resurfaced on the karaoke thread, with Theater Jim saying he had never gone but wants to go sometime.

I didn't mention this in yesterday's entry, but watching Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist last night was making me kind of feel stir crazy and wanting to be normal again--go out and dance and sing and get crazy. Maybe that's still a bad urge these days, I don't know, but I was actually "feeling normal" and wanting to bust out.

Jade had me take pictures of my hand so she could do palm reading. Here's some of the results:

* "Venus of course represents love and the love you emanate is received back but not with the timing you might expect also the love you receive needs to find someone or something to receive it. This can sometimes denote a spiritual love not only a physical love * You branch down towards the mount of moon can denote an instability of nature and lack of purpose or ambition. However the many lines in the quadrangle donate creative brilliance and flashes of intuition The heart line being in Jupiter also indicates that you desire a relationship that has a spiritual connection and that mundane endeavours in any area of life can cause a malaise in the soul. In plainer English you look for a deeper meaning in your friendships and relationships and hobbies and career.
* Your line of affection has a break where there is a fork neither is the right path to take but in letting go a deeper line appears that lasts for a long time. It is hard to know the timing if this is something that has already happened or is in your future."

On the Internet, I have been reading an advice thread written by someone who just got friend-dumped unexpectedly. The OP offended the friend in I guess some kind of inadvertent manner, friend just kinda blew up and dumped, now what can OP do if anything (nothing, you can't). But one person said something interesting about how she once had a relationship that wasn't going the way she wanted, she kept asking for what the guy didn't want to give, so she decided to quit the relationship. The guy was shocked and hurt, she was hoping he'd come to his senses and want to be with her and instead he left her alone and it bothered here, and then she said eventually she reached out, they talked it through, and they eventually got married. AWWWWWW. I wanted to know more details and asked her privately, and she clarified that yes, it was a relationship where they were FWB'ing and she wanted to be a couple and he didn't, and the breakup really bothered him, and then they figured it out.

She said not to give up hope, who knows what will happen for you in the future. True enough on the second one, at least.

I wonder if this explains everything?

After work I watched "Doxies and Brews," a webinar combining beer and watching a "mockumentary" of the Doxie Derby from the beforetimes. Well, that was the advertising, anyway. Much to my annoyance, they're not showing the whole thing until online Picnic Day, which I will be busy during half of anyway. Feh. I forgot they were doing that online, but whatever. They showed like 15 seconds of that and then went onto the beer. The hell? I quit watching.

Rehearsal: was about an hour long and we did "Ballad of Farquaad," in which we find out about Farquaad's dwarf daddy issues and then he switches into bragging about his wedding, which the guards do a little singing in.

Steve is doing better since 4 a.m. he can breathe and no longer smells nothing but cigarette smoke for 13 months. They started out by playing the Broadway version of "Battle of Farquaad," so that's good. And there was a "guards only" section of the recordings, which we still didn't work with. Mostly we were trying to figure out where we sing our bits. I'm still stumped on where the "la la las" are going, but I think I at least have the other lines more or less down. Yay. It helped when we got Andy (Farquaad) to sing more of it so we could figure out what the hell we were doing.

Quotes:

"If I see lips moving out of sync, you're mostly correct." -Steve "Why am I telling you to stop when I'm the one playing it? Why isn't it stopping?" -Steve Steve asked why some people have a "blur" setting on in and Dannette explained that it's on the latest update and he might want to update his. Steve's response: "My Zoom is very updated, lady. Bug off, boogaloo." "That seemed to be a little less of a trainwreck" -Steve "Actually, YOU were off in the latency, Carter!" -everyone accuses everyone of being off. Robert asked Andy to record all the la la's. Andy: "I've heard crazier ideas." Steve: "Really? What are they?" Steve, screwing with Andy after he's sung it to pace: "Now let's take it up to tempo!...I was kidding." Someone else: "Pay no attention to that man, Andy." On rehearsing: "Is it killing you, Andy?" "Tiny bit, not enough to stop." After it was decided that Steve will record the la la's: "This may end up being sampled by rappers, who knows? I might get famous. I'll call it the Ballad of Isaacson." We have no pianist for the show--someone is recording out of the goodness of her heart, apparently. Someone: "They heard Hugo was in the show." Andy: "Shots fired!"

Well, that went BETTER, at least....Next rehearsal, Sunday.

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